so i guess that means that marty is full time in RTE, i suppose Brian Carthy as their Gaelic Games Correspondent is as well. Are the rest sort of freelance then? I would imagine that the likes of Joanne Cantwell, Darragh Moloney and the like are full time in the sports department, like Des Cahill and just get Gaelic Games as part of their duties so only Brian and Marty are the full time GAA people?

RTE is a terrible awful incestious place though. In a former life i did a lot of radio in dublin and I have a few friends still in RTE and it is in many respects a terrible place.

I remember bumping into a "deputy head of comedy" once i few years ago. At the time RTE had 5 comedy shows between Radio and TV for the whole year and yet there was obviously a department with at least a head and a deputy head and the clerical staff to go with them. I am going to be generous and assume that part of his job was also to read Entertainment Weekly and sign RTE to The Big Bang Theory and so on as well.....not to mention go off on the big jolly to TV festivals around the world to watch the big bang theory and buy it for RTE....

Marty used to visit the colleges or some of them anyway , around the Fitzgibbon and Sigerson times , and you'd think it was Tom Jones getting out of his Rolls with the shirt open and a carpet Des Kelly would be proud of. More cheese than a Galtee factory .. took a fierce interest in the camogie though

Marty used to visit the colleges or some of them anyway , around the Fitzgibbon and Sigerson times , and you'd think it was Tom Jones getting out of his Rolls with the shirt open and a carpet Des Kelly would be proud of. More cheese than a Galtee factory .. took a fierce interest in the camogie though